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Speedo League Round 3 - Saturday 11th DecemberWith great morale and team spirit, there were excellent swims from each and every swimmer, yielding 10 personal best swims. |
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Sheffield City B Grade Open Meet - 17th November
Twelve of our swimmers took part in this open meet at Ponds Ford. Results can be viewed on the Sheffield City S.C website.
Club Championships 19th and 21st November 2004
Thank you everyone who helped make this years event so successful. There
were some great competitive swims and many PBs. Results for the championships
can be viewed here.
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Sam Smith is our first swimmer to join the County elite squad, Derventio eXcel. What this means to the club is that for the first time in our history, our swimmers have a pathway from learning to swim to competing at the highest level, without leaving the club.
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Speedo League Round 1 - 9th October |
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On the 9th of October we competed in the first round of the Speedo League. This year 10 clubs are to be relegated in order that the 3 Divisions can be of a similar size. We had a number of swimmers missing with illness and our 5th placing was not what we wanted. However we still had 11 swimmers perform personal best times, an excellent achievement. I know everyone gave 100%. Another positive note is that we had no disqualifications, so well done. Our current position in the league is on the notice board. We go into round 2 facing a fight for survival. I am confident we can remain in Division 2 if we understand one simple principal; “the honour of the club comes first”. |
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Rykneld B&C Grade Gala - 3rd October |
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With entries from a total of 25 swimming clubs from around the
country, this years open meet was the biggest since our B&C
grade meets started in 2001. Many thanks to all the volunteers,
pool side helpers and officials who helped make this such a successful
event.We also would like to thank local businesses in Clay Cross
who have supported the Meet again this year. Click here to download results (Word Format) |
2nd Loughborough Training Camp - 3rd October |
| On the same day as our B & C Grade Gala, Brie made a second trip to Loughborough to train with professional coach, Mark Rose. Find out more about Brie's "Loughborough Experience" here >> |
Quality Swim and Sports Club Awards - August 2004 |
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We are proud to announce that we have been awarded Swim 21. As such Rykneld SC, has been recognised as meeting criteria set by the ASA. We are 1 of 3 clubs in Derbyshire to have Swim 21. We have also been awarded the Sport England Clubmark. Click on the logos to find out more> |
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Jeff Mathews Trophy Gala |
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| Well done to every swimmer who competed in this extremely close gala. This is a brilliant result and reflects the hard work you all have put in over the year. Last December we were 10 pts behind Eckington in the Speedo League, so this is a great achievement. We had 43 pbs and this does not include our young and new first time competitors. Congratulations to Ainsley for knocking 1.45 s off her 100m fc and blasting 5.2 s off her 100 bk to achieve 2 Midland District qualifying times. | |||||||||||||||||
Worksop Dolphins 21st Dukeries Open Meet |
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12 of our swimmers gained experience competing at this long course gala at Ponds Forge, taking away 23 pbs. The competition was of a high standard and so congratulations to Sam Smith for receiving a medal for 6th place in the 100m bst, with a pb of 1:39.13. George Roberts just missed out on a medal with a 7th in the 50m bst with a pb of 51.1. Many thanks to our three "seniors" Amy, Lucy and Jack, who all had good swims and supported the juniors on the poolside. Results can be found on the Worksop Dolphins web site
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City of Derby B&C 2004 |
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Some amazing swims by all the swimmers who swam in the gala. There were 37 pbs.Well done to everyone! |
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1st places:
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Bronze for:
Speeding tickets for: Ainsley
Finalists: Steph & Rosie Smith, Lewis Marsh & Ruby
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Diddy League Final - June 2004 |
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Cheesestring Age Group Championships |
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Sam Smith reports, "At the weekend I represented our club in the midlands distict championships. There were some brilliant swimmers but I think I did our club proud by acheiving two PB's in the 100 and 200m freestyle. I would like to say a big thank you to Alan Marsh for giving up his weekend to come to Coventry and support me. HE WAS A MASSIVE HELP! Now we all need to train extra hard to get more swimmers qualifying for next years championships."
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Bridlington Gala |
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Well done to everyone who swam in the gala at Brid, we all had a great time. I think that most people went on the fair and if you didn't see Alan on the frog hopper you missed a real treat. Now to the gala, everyone swam well but special mention must go to Rebecca Smith 6, Toby Dawes 5 and Sophie Mahadevan 7 who swam for the under 10s! They did our club proud and we won the gala 81-61.
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Loughborough Training Camp |
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Sam Smith, Brie Parkin and Ruby Brunt went to Loughborough to train wiith Deventio Excel's head coach Mark Rose. They had a great day but it was very tiring with one and a half hours of land training and two hours in a fifty metre pool. It was a good experience and very nice to do.
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Diddy League Round 2 |
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Well done to all our Swimmers who have competed in our 2004 Diddy League team, following up on their 1st place win, in Round 1 with this wonderful 2nd place finish, in what was a very close 2nd round competition. These two excellent results have given our youngsters a place in the Junior Diddy League Final on June 6th.
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Angela in gold claim |
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At the Melton Mowbary Gala for swimmers with disability Rykneld's Angela Wibberly collected a trio of gold medals. Angela's first success was in the 25m freestyle which was followed by a win in the 50m freestyle in a new pb time, to complete the day Angela also took the gold in the 50m backstroke. Congratulations Angela for three tremendous swims. |
Derbyshire Championships |
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13/14th March - At our home pool at Sharley Park our swimmers again produced great swims with 40 finalist placings and 16 placings in the top 3. It was great to see Jack Chambers go through the 100m freestyle 60 second barrier for his first time after coming so close in recent swims, with a time of 59.93. Ben Cooper had an outstanding swim in the 200m Butterfly with a personal best time of 2.19.66 taking 1st place in the 15yrs, 16yrs and the open age group. |
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| 6/7th March -What a great start from our swimmers at this years Derbyshire Championships, with so many of our swimmers producing Pb's in the first weekend of the Championships which was held at the Queens Pool in Derby. Our swimmers finished with 41 finalist places and 13 places in the top three. A fantastic start and with the next round held at our home pool at Sharley Park we look forward for more great swims to come. Thanks go to our coaching team who supported our swimmers throughout the weekend of competition. | |
Trident Meet, 8th Feb |
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8 young swimmers represented Rykneld in the recent Trident Gala.
Sam Smith, Reece Walton, George Roberts, Jack Kerry, Lewis Marsh,
Emma Cocking, Ruby Brunt, Ainsley Cross.Our Swimmers made a total
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Coach Alan Marsh reports "All of the swimmers were a credit to our club, each showed great professionalism and gave 100% in all of their races. I felt a great deal of pride being their coach on poolside that day".Well Done to you all. |
Dronfield Dolphins Diddy Challenge |
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| Congratulations to all our young swimmers who competed in the Dronfield Diddy Challenge, for what will have been for many their first competitive gala. With so many of our swimmers producing pb's our coaches were thrilled with the whole teams performance and was a good opportunity for experience with the Diddy league galas coming along.Rykneld finished in 3rd place a very good result against some strong apposition. Our thanks to go to Dronfield Dolphins for organising this most enjoyable gala. | |||||||||||||||||
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...............Congratulations to all these swimmers who broke their Pb's ..................... Mathew Waller 50 bk 2.2secs, Emma Cocking 50bk 5.2 secs, Ainsley Cross 50 free 0.3 secs, Amy Gregory 50 free 2.2 secs, Lily Hammond 50 fly 0.6 secs, Amelia Irving 50bk 0.8 secs, Jack Kerry 50bk 1.4 secs, Chris Lewis 50 brst 0.8secs, Lewis Marsh 50free 1 sec, Mathew Mellor 50 brst 6.6 secs, Brie Parkin, 25fly 2.4secs, George Roberts 50 brst 0.8 secs.. |
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Speedo Round 3 |
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| Congratulations to all our swimmers who have competed so brilliantly as a team in each of the three rounds of the Speedo competition. The final round produced a very exciting gala held at the Water Meadows pool, Mansfield, hosted by Rykneld Swimming Club. As usual the competition brought out the very best in team swimming with every one of our swimmers giving their very best for Rykneld Swimming Club.After a closely fought gala our team finished in third place just behind local rivals Eckington and the eventual winners Halesowen. |
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Belper Marlins Friendly |
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| The club would like to thank Belper Marlins for inviting our swimmers to take part in a 3 club friendly gala. Attending the gala were Belper Marlins, Rykneld and Chapeltown, competing in age grouped 50m sprints and relays. The result of the gala was only decided by the last few events, with all three clubs throughout the gala within a few points of each other. The eventual winner was 'Chapletown A' with Rykneld second, our coaches were extremely pleased with all the swimmers who again swam brilliantly as a team. |
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Speedo League Round 2 |
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Fresh from our recent win at Sutton the Rykneld Speedo team were outstanding in round 2 of the Speedo league. We travelled down to the Tamworth pool in the impressive Snowdome complex, the team set off to a great start and maintained their lead throughout the gala with outstanding wins throughout the age groups. Rebecca Sigley back in training after a break from swimming swam as though she had never been away. | |||||||||||||||
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There were also noticeable swims by Sam Smith who informed us that he wasn't feeling to well as we travelled back, Adam Sharpe back from injury who was back setting new Pb's. But it was a real team victory which was matched with a great team spirit, we even had the coach driver cheering the team on. The win lifts our squad to a strong position in the league as the team look forward to round 3 in December.Thanks go to Debbie Watkinson, Heather and John Cooper who were our officials at the gala | |||||||||||||||
Michael Doughty Trophy |
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| Rykneld attended the Michael Doughty Trophy Graded Gala hosted by Sutton Swimming Club. The gala gave the coaches at Rykneld the opportunity to give valuable gala experience to a number of our up and coming swimmers. It was a close call for first place between Ripley Rascals and Rykneld right from the start, the two teams were neck and neck. The final result hinged on the last race of the night 'the cannon' but with full credit to all our swimmers and the coaching staff. Rykneld came away clinching first place and the magnificent Michael Doughty Trophy. | |
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